Lesson 4 of 5 · Life Cycles

Experiment⭐ 30 XP🌿 Wild Jungle

Fish Breathe Underwater

🧪Lab Brief #4

Life Cycles.

🎯 Your mission

Set it up. Test it. Be amazed.

⚡ The twist

Living things break the rules of non-living things — find the rule they break.

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Mind = Blown

🦠 You have more bacterial cells in your body than human cells.

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Make a hypothesis first

Predict: what will happen to the plant if you change the water?

What You'll Learn

Fish live in water and breathe through gills. People breathe air with lungs!

Key Words

Tap a word to see its definition.

Materials Needed

seeds
soil
water

Safety First

Wash your hands thoroughly afterwards and keep the material away from your face.
Mop up spills straight away so nobody slips, and keep liquids away from sockets.

Steps

Step 1 — Read

Say the vocabulary words out loud. Can you repeat them?

Step 2 — Do

Plant a seed in a cup of soil and give it water. Put it by a sunny window.

Step 3 — Observe

Draw a picture of what you see.

Step 4 — Record

Share what you learned with someone!

Check Your Understanding

Question 1

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Where do fish live?

How sure are you going to be?😐 maybe

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Where you see this in real life

Your own body is doing this thousands of times every second.

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Stretch Challenge

Try this in real life this week.

Find one thing about your body that's different from a friend's. Wonder why.

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For the dinner table

“Tell me something you noticed about your own body today.”

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